"Officers of the Mint account of plate brought in"

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: T 1/133.74, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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May it please your Lordships

In obedience to your Lordships Order signified to us by M^r Lowndes that we should prepare an account of what Quantity of Plate has been brought in upon the Resolutions of the house of Commons & the value thereof & lay the same before your Lordships this morning: We humbly represent that on friday when we began to receive & on saturday there was brought in 71584^oz 10^dwt of old Plate & 35767^oz of new. The first at 5^s 5^d per ounce comes to 19387^li. 9^s. 4^d $\frac{1}{2}$ The second at 5^s 8^d per ounce comes to 10133^li. 19^s. 8^d. And both together come to twenty nine thousand five hundred twenty one pounds nine shilings. And there lies about two or three thousand pounds worth of Plate at the Mint to be weighed this morning. We are

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My Lords

Your Lordships most humble

& most obedient Servants

C. Peyton

Is. Newton

In Ellis

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To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of her Majesties Treasury.

14 May 1711

Officers of the Mint account of plate brought in
Report.

^[1] Mint
May 14 1711